Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of full-filesystem-rsync

Timestamp:

Feb 8, 2012, 11:40:07 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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full-filesystem-rsync

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+= Full Filesystem rsync =
+
+Sometimes we need to move an entire server from one machine to another machine.
+
+The first step is to boot the target guest from a debirf image, mount all filesystem in /mnt, and add the source server's ssh key into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on the debirf image.
+
+Then, on the source, edit and run the following script:
+
+{{{
+target=root@leslie.new:/mnt/
+
+# -a typically means: --recursive --links --perms --times --group --owner
+# --devices --specials
+# we don't use extended attributes normally (otheriwse, we might want -X)
+# or ACLs (otherwise might consider -A)
+
+exclude="--exclude /etc/fstab --exlude /etc/network/interfaces /etc/udev/rules.d/*"
+rsync -ax --hard-links --delete $exclude / "$target"
+rsync -ax --hard-links --delete /srv "$target"
+rsync -ax --hard-links --delete /var "$target"
+}}}